Sophomore Vocabulary

4. lack of interest or emotion
6. disapproval
7. Characterization the narrator directly states a character's traits
11. Very serious and worrying
12. a reference to a statement, person, place, or event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture
13. material such as sand or gravel deposited by moving water
16. in an unplanned or disoriented way
18. next to or adjoining something else
20. applications of warm, moist substances in the treatment of an injury

1. person who tends to lay down principles as indisputable, without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others
2. moment of sudden understanding
3. firm;unyeilding
5. the author's word choice
8. advance beyond the usual limit
9. interrupt the flow of a sequence to describe earlier events; may take the form of a memory, a dream, or an actual relocation of the story into the past
10. A foot (unit of rhythm) in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
14. Causality When one cites sequential events as evidence that the first caused the second
15. show open contempt
17. a remark that a character makes to the audience but that other characters do not hear
19. a short statement expressing a general truth